FWIW: Apple is defending their patents after several companies ignored them and went ahead and chose to produce products and see if Apple will sue.

HTC will lose. Google is already in talks with Apple at the top brass to figure out how to diffuse the situation and Nokia is going to fall on its face with it's request while having to deal with Apple's counter.

Whether you like it or not, Apple has amassed nearly 4000 patents since 2004 for their latest products.

They've learned from the past. They won't repeat that mistake.

You seem to be missing the fact that Elan has been making touch sensitive screens since the late nineties. I know, I have several of them. Not to mention that Nokia invented most of the cell technology that Apple is conveniently using without paying for. Regardless of anything else, they will still owe Nokia for the license fee, whatever that ends up being. Google may cross license, but they will NOT back down and remove touch from Android. Apple is going to have to take its knocks. They may get knocked a little or knocked hard, the courts will determine.